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The Rise of Class Actions
The industry is experiencing a growth in class actions following the subprime crisis, and vendors have expanded services to meet the growing international demand. Carla Mangado reports on what lies behind the increasing focus on class actions data
In Search of Identity
Market participants claim there is a need for a unique business entity identification standard. But many large firms are currently not prepared to adopt yet another code. Do regulators need to step in to make the International Business Entity Identifier…
Is Cost Out of Control?
Market and reference data spend is being duplicated across multiple departments and firms need to get costs under control, says Xenomorph's Brian Sentance
Options Symbology - Time to Play Catch-Up
Only a handful of firms have started preparing for the options symbology initiative that will change options codes for trading and settlement, but experts say some of the work should have been done yesterday. Tine Thoresen reports on how firms can catch…
Speakerbus Debuts I Turret
LONDON-Trading floor communications system provider Speakerbus announced today, June 30, that it has entered the turret market with its first voice over IP (VoIP)-based turret, DWT has learned.
The Longest Day
Somehow it seems appropriate: Just 10 days after the summer solstice-the longest day of the year-there are press reports that Deutsche Börse is mulling the idea of opening trading on its Xetra platform earlier in the morning to compete with the upstart…
Charles River Introduces Real-time Market Data Interface
Boston-based portfolio management system provider Charles River Development has created a real-time market data interface (MDI) in Version 8.2 of its Investment Management System. The Charles River MDI now gives clients access to real-time streaming…
Quant House Expands Feed Support
Low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has rolled out support for the ITCH datafeed from Nasdaq's Inet market, and is planning to build out more new feed handlers for European exchanges and MTFs later this year.
Telekurs Launches RMDS Adapter for MDF Feed
Telekurs Financial has entered into a sales and marketing partnership with Zurich-based technology vendor Unitek Engineering, to offer its clients an RMDS interface to help integrate data from its MDFselect real-time feed into their application…
PrismTech Tackles Data Spikes
Boston-based middleware provider PrismTech plans to launch version 4.1 of its OpenSplice DDS (Data Distribution Service) middleware platform in the fourth quarter of 2008, incorporating a new feature designed to ensure firms do not lose data during…
Archangel Takes Full Flight
NEW HOPE, PA.-Alternative trading system (ATS) Archangel from software and network provider 3D Markets has gone into full production, officials tell DWT .
SDB Deploys VoIP on Its Trading Floor
SHENZHEN-Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB) has rolled out voice over IP (VoIP) turrets from trading communications vendor IPC for the bank's centralized China trading floor, sources tell DWT .